The Small House in the Small Town

Even though we loved living in our yurt, there are many things about owning a home, and this home in particular, that will more than make up for the wait for the second yurt. (I am speaking as if we own this house, but it is not official yet.)

1) We own it! Or will shortly. That means in place of monthly rent, we will be paying a yearly tax roughly equal to one month's worth of our last apartment. The neighbors there had kicking steroes and shot holes in their walls/girlfriends for fun with real guns, so we were getting great dollar value.

2) The yard is vast. There is already a narrow sidewalk dividing it into His and Hers halves. My half contains the apple tree. His will soon boast a shop in which he will have a place for every loud, greasy tool of his dreams, and every load, greasy tool in its place. This shop will also one day serve as the Moonshine Shack: the locked building not attached to a place of residence in which we can make our own ethanol. Not for drinking, so don't even offer us one-hundred dollars a gallon because we will laugh in your face because we don't need the money.

3) It's in A***** County. Where Our People live and shop at the A***** Farm Market, and go to community food workshops by John the Bee Guy (among others) with Potluck afterward, and know what a yurt is, and wash with my Mom's soap.

4) It's three minute's drive to a Kroger. Our last Small Town had only a tiny Mart with more varieties of frozen pizza than of fresh produce and no plain yogurt at all.

5) No carpets. Yes, I'm sure you can guess what this means: Naked Potty-Training. Just two hours ago Lilli did not pee on the floor, but in her potty the first time ever she sat on it, so don't tell me it doesn't work.

6) Sam's Gym. "Do you know what I want?" My husband said to me, "I want to start a gym where it's just barebones matts on the floor, no instructor--everyone would learn from each other. It'd be dirt cheap. Dirt cheap. You might not even need fees, you could just have a jar by the door. That's what I want." That gym exists. And it's right down the road.

In short, if there is a house that is just as just right for us as our yurt, it is this house. We are pleased, and we will stay five years, God willin' an' the creek don't rise.